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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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slow calls detection

some of our teams are using mendix and we noticed that even thoug we can list the calls with different metrics we cant see how long the actual activity took unless we click on the calls one by one. we should be listing the calls by the activity ti...
9 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Service Configuration

Exclude URL’s Mute requests (Still monitor request but don’t alert
9 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Easy threshold management

We can’t configure built-in events. Threshold management for every individual service/host. the configuration can be done for services and hosts as well because the operational cost is too high at the moment
9 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Vulnerability Scanning

We need to detect vulnerability scanning requests, ignore it and don’t alert.
9 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Ignoring Client IP

We need to ignore requests for some specifiyng client ip. For example, if the request coming from x.x.x.x IP, ignore it, don’t alert.
9 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Dynamic discovery of all Filesystems

We have observed that Instana agents auto discovers only local filesystems, for other filesystems we have to define them manually in the configuration yaml file which is tedious task and high chances of missing alerts for newly created filesystems...
9 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Tagging, Management Zone (GUI)

We need to tag service/host/anyCI and show them under logical grouping. Easy filtering with tagging
9 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Baseline Anomaly - Failure Rate

There is no option of adoptive threshold for erroneous calls. Alternative %10 & %20 static threshold, too many alerts
9 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

Real User Monitoring (RUM)

Automatic injection Configure via UI (Enable/Disable) Ignore browser version DZM data collector for internet apps these are the things we found rum is lacking at the moment. we are also using dynatrace so we usually compare instana with dynatrace ...
9 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted

• We can not create a custom event same same properties with built-in event.

Exp: CPU Steal Time exceeded – “Number of violations as a condition” property does not exist. we have to be able to recreate the builtin events so that we can create them using different threshoulds and such. some of the events does not meet our d...
9 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration